Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69159c847ff68f1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fe0661f0ec596783ceda51e0f89afdc6 SHA-1: dba91f196ba7d6efe8feec83bac99adb0495feb9 SHA-256: 69159c847ff68f1efab6036ecb1eea7db1b647addbc3fe0ab60b317f8f3bf02c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm and a specific URL identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Black Friday 2017 deals' and the malicious URL. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt where the user is enticed to click the link, leading them to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=black+friday+2017+deals
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1044/8798/files/43258365153.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5573/5193/files/effective_public_speaking_skills.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9067/1771/files/chava_kadambari_marathi.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3be3a7_feb189aaf8244ce88a92b8ca02643c30.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bfa3c3610ba742a2be88244e439d246f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/286fb8_785ce76bbc1d440d8c45399175c65b6e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7604/3423/files/fafexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2585/8711/files/5060617982.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/36997194068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4914/8838/files/xewulozonixejatifuwipev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2697/2825/files/skinner_ciencia_e_comportamento_huma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2071/4137/files/microeconomics_parkin_12th_edition_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9784/1054/files/35487512897.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5282/5750/files/understanding_and_using_english_grammar_basic.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000070be.bin
6aff8b046fc581368feafeabb02b2848045070cd045a161051d179edb6678ee4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70BE 5636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008406.bin
4e421aab8bc358eb7d61804b605a113829e14248bc588c2eb0d72022856f79a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8406 14948 bytes